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The Helmers of Roxborough

By CPC | Jan 1, 2025

  Television series like Yellowstone, with its stunning backdrops, paint a grand picture of a dynastic family. Though it was Henry Persse who promoted the area as a resort it…

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Roxborough: food for the heart

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

  Sixty-eight million years ago, red sandstone spires in the Fountain Bedrock Formation, moved from horizontal to the vertical in Roxborough, much like the Garden of the Gods. Later, it…

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Castle Rock: aptly named

By CPC | Nov 1, 2024

  Castle Rock was named after the rock formation towering over it. An outlier for its name, it is also the perfect icon for minerals that were early foundations for…

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The path of an eccentric, renaissance man

By CPC | Oct 1, 2024

Civil War veteran Chester Leach and his wife, Lucy, were among the early settlers in Denver, brought here by a team of oxen. Their son Clarence was born in 1872.…

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Douglas County’s first immigrants

By CPC | Sep 1, 2024

The Douglas County Wildcat Lore pioneering stories would be incomplete without addressing the forerunners: Native Americans. In fact, using historian Larry Schlupp’s words, they were indeed our “first immigrants.” As…

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The Pavilion in The Village showcases original settlers

By CPC | Aug 1, 2024

When The Village at Castle Pines chose to build its Pavilion seven years ago, it was designed to serve as a multiple-use facility: a gathering place, a venue for larger…

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The Higbys: A Greenland tapestry

By CPC | Jul 1, 2024

Today’s recreated frame of the iconic Higby Mercantile building sits windblown, almost forlorn, at what was once a major crossroad in lower Douglas County. At one time, the Denver and…

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Castle Rock’s founding triumvirate

By CPC | Jun 1, 2024

  Shakers and movers are colorful folks, visionaries and risk takers seeing and often seizing opportunities that others will not. Castle Rock’s founders John Craig, Jeremiah Gould and Philip Wilcox…

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it!

By CPC | May 1, 2024

  The headline comes from Yogi Berra, but it applies equally to the good folks of Jarre Valley and Jarre Canyon. Douglas County settlers were naturally attracted to water and…

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Twin Creek and two buttes

By CPC | Apr 1, 2024

Born in 1863 of Scotch lineage, George Patrick Stewart hailed from Murchison, Victoria, in Australia’s gold belt. After his storekeeper/postmaster father died when George was 7 years old, his uncle…

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